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peninsula

noun
/pəˈnɪn.sjə.lə/UK/pəˈnɪn.sə.lə/US/pəˈnɪn.ʃə.lə/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin paenīnsula, from paene (“almost”), and īnsula (“island”).

  1. borrowed from paenīnsula

Definitions

  1. A piece of land projecting into water from a larger land mass.

  2. A township in Grand Traverse County, Michigan, United States.

  3. A village in Summit County, Ohio, United States.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Ellipsis of Iberian Peninsula.

      • [W]ith the exceptions of Switzerland, Sweden and the Peninsula, the whole of Europe was now in the grip of Hitler[.]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at peninsula. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at peninsula. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at peninsula

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA